7 MORE Project Management Templates to Save You Time and Improve Your Performance

 

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Download these quick before they're back in the PREMIUM library! These are all examples of premium content available 24X7 to our Premium Members. However, they are free to every registered member through Thursday, August 22nd. We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful. If you are not already a Premium Plus member but would like to be, Premium Plus membership is available at a $50 discount using the code "KEEP50". 

The following premium templates are available to all ProjectManagement.com members until 8/22. We hope you find them useful.

Strategic Requirements Template (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This deliverable aligns with the concepts expressed in the article Strategic Requirements Management. This template should be used in conjunction with a more traditional requirements document to assist in the prioritizing of features and the finalizing of scope elements. It can also support discussions around changes in scope during the project. The cells provide a basic summary of each column.

Evaluating Your Project's Potential for Outsourcing
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This document outlines how to evaluate your project’s potential for outsourcing, and describes the factors that help determine outsourcing’s pros and cons as a project development option, analyses on its cost-benefit and risks, and other requirements under it. These items are in addition to other factors that you may wish to include. 

Requirements Traceability Matrix (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
At the most basic level traceability is concerned with two things: Ensuring that every requirement is built into the completed product/solution, and ensuring that every feature ties back to a requirement. This template is a very simple guide for organizations just starting to trace requirements. As organizations become more comfortable with traceability, they will likely want to add additional columns, but this will serve to help ensure that all requirements are built and that all features match requirements.

Requirements Manager
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Three core requirements management tools can effectively improve project management success: building a requirements tree, creating a requirements traceability matrix and establishing a requirements baseline. 

Budget Template Workbook (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Budget Template Workbook includes: a cost estimate sheet to document your initial cost assumptions, a planning templateto help you take a detailed look at planning costs, and a tracking template to track actual costs against budget and document reasons for variances. It's a great planning and communication tool to help you stay on top of project finances. 

Project HEADWAY Risk Impact Tool
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This spreadsheet will help you align your project efforts with the specific risks you face on your project to make estimating and resource management more accurate and effective. 

Project HEADWAY Project Status Report
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The purpose of a status report is to provide the project sponsor, the steering committee and other stakeholders with an understanding of how the project is progressing. The status report template allows the project manger to provide the audience members with a high-level view of the project. The template provides them with enough information in order to for them to understand project progress--but not so much information as to overwhelm them. 

Sharpen the Saw!

ProjectManagement.com's PMprep Questions are a great way to "sharpen the saw". They are terrific if you are preparing for a certification test, and they also help you earn badges and build out the skills in your profile. Each correct answer ups your PM Street Cred. 

Challenge Your PM Peers To A Friendly Battle!

PMwars! are raging on. Think of it as Words With Friends for Project Managers. You challenge a colleague or any PM on the site to answer a randomly selected set of questions from our bank of over 1,700. Each player has 90 seconds to answer as many as possible correctly--then we have a winner! It's a quick, easy way to brush up on some of the finer academic aspects of PM and have a little fun at the same time. You probably saw an earlier email from me about this month's contest. We're giving away two premium memberships and two copies of Project Pain Reliever to the four players who play the most games by the end of the month. Give it a try and let us know what you think! 

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Best,
Dave
Dave Garrett
President & CEO, projectmanagement.com